New @times directive

[marknuyens]

Hello everyone,

I've encountered a few occasions where I wanted to repeat some part of my Blade markup. For example:

@for ($i = 0; $i < 2; $i++)
    <x-icon class="size-10 fill-red-500 />
@endfor

I figured that this could be easily converted into a @times directive:

Blade::directive('times', fn (int $amount) => "<?php for (\$i = 0; \$i < {$amount}; \$i++): ?>");
Blade::directive('endtimes', fn () => '<?php endfor; ?>');

This would result in:

@times(2)
    <x-icon class="size-10 fill-red-500 />
@endtimes

Arguments against may include simplicity, but that may very well also be an argument for using this. Also, if you're anything like me, remembering the for loop syntax can sometimes be tricky - this would help simplify this.

Anyway, curious to what y'all think, 😄

Thanks!

[shaedrich]

This could be simplified to:

@foreach (range(0, 1) as $i)
    <x-icon class="size-10 fill-red-500 />
@endforeach

And I wonder, how many cases of production code need the exact same HTML (from inside @times) and aren't in fact more complicated again.

[marknuyens]

You're right by suggesting this feature might not be the most popular, but I did run into a few situations and I was curious if anyone else had a similar experience. Other than that, I do think my directive would provide a more elegant syntax as opposed to range(), IMHO.

But again, I would totally understand if there was little need for this. Just throwing it out there ;-)